There is a reason why the catering industry is called "diligence". This industry emphasizes the word "diligence" more than other jobs.
Since ancient times, a cook who relies on his craftsmanship has not been considered a noble profession. Scholars even put forward the argument that "a gentleman is far away from the cook". Only low-level people who are willing to work hard to earn a living are willing to join the profession.
Therefore, the chef business should also be included in the so-called lower class.
In fact, in terms of physical exertion alone, the work intensity of those who shave heads, do pedicures, and sell goods is not as intense as that of the catering industry. However, those who carry large bags, pull carts, and dig coal in the mines are hard and tiring. , but you don’t have to worry as much as the catering industry.
At the same time, the catering industry is worrying and laborious, and it also takes time.
Normally, work in a restaurant starts in the early morning, and goes to the morning market at 5 a.m. or even earlier to do shopping, and then comes the preparation work. Simply making soup in the kitchen takes at least four or five hours, and you can't leave people during this time. . What's more, the tedious processes of choosing vegetables, cutting meat, changing knives, marinating, etc., extremely test people's patience.
When it comes to the rush to start the meal, the tension in the entire kitchen is like a war. Under the scorching flames, all departments need to work together accurately. The heads of each department must be highly concentrated. A moment's distraction may cause mistakes. The emphasis is more on details, and even the order of serving dishes needs to be grasped. At this time, people's coordination and response abilities are tested. .
After finishing the cleaning work after the meal, I had no time to take a breath and immediately got into the cleaning work and preparation of the next meal, until the end of the dinner.
It usually takes until after eleven or twelve o'clock at night for a group of cooks to have the happy moment of the day.
Just like this, if you want to run a restaurant well, from five o'clock in the morning to night or even into the early morning, every detail cannot be ignored.
Although there will be departmental division of labor, the person in charge needs to invest energy in every link, and even needs to do it personally at certain times.
A good restaurant can only produce good products by grasping every detail.
Of course, a good restaurant really makes money.
The diligence in the catering industry is real hard work. You have to devote yourself to it more than twenty hours a day. This is not something ordinary people can bear.
Fortunately, Yao Yuan was lazy and chose a braised pork shop that was not too strenuous to start with. With the help of Mancheng and Brother Dang, a small braised pork shop was successfully opened.
If you have the experience of being a head chef, you will instinctively divide the various tasks and assign them to everyone reasonably, while you just have to do some checks on key nodes.
Because of this, opening this braised pork shop did not consume much energy from Yao Yuan.
But things are different now. The next thing to be opened is a serious store. From door decoration to staff recruitment to uniform uniforms, he is the core person who needs to arrange every detail.
The eldest brother of the party is from the Huotou Army, so it is perfectly fine to ask him to formulate some rules and regulations related to the kitchen, but when it comes to management, he is a complete layman.
Fortunately, Comrade Dang Jianguo has been through the sea, received rigorous training in the army, and suffered many blows in the society. He cherishes this career very much and devotes extraordinary enthusiasm and energy.
He learns what he doesn't know, and there are many masters around him. Whether it's Aunt Wei from the neighborhood committee or Director Gu from the police station, or even Man Cheng and Lao Xie around him will become the ones he asks for advice. Of course, there is also that reliable but unreliable person. Reliable Yao Yuan and Master Yao.
I have become accustomed to Yao Yuan's reliability and unreliability. Now, no matter what inexplicable ideas he comes up with, Dang Jianguo is able to remain calm and ask for advice carefully. He must ask questions about things he does not understand. Only when you get to the bottom of things can you find a solution; for things that you can't figure out, even if your "owner" is trying to hold back, you have to be forced to find a solution.
And Yao Yuan was really good at what he did. He only needed to tell the party eldest brother how to do something, and then he would use the excuse of being nervous to study to push off the next trivial matters.
Even for such a major matter as door decoration, he just introduced his friend Qi Baohua, whom he met while wrestling together, to the party eldest brother, and then asked no more questions about the rest.
Qi Baohua is a wrestler that Yao Yuan met in Zizhu Park. He and Yao Yuan once teamed up to catch thieves and taught a lesson to young gangsters. He is short and stocky and has extraordinary skills. At the same time, he is an expert in repairing ancient buildings.
Qi Baohua's work unit is the renovation team of the district housing management office.
The district's housing repair team is not only responsible for the repair of residents' houses, but is also responsible for the repair work of several scenic spots and historic sites in the district.
In fact, in this ancient city in the Second Ring Road, many seemingly inconspicuous courtyard houses have a history of hundreds of years. Many of them can be traced back to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Although they are just ordinary houses now, they must be regarded as ancient houses. Built cultural relics.
Qi Baohua's repair team has a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, and there are a number of old masters who are engaged in ancient architecture. Speaking of which, these old masters should be regarded as precious experts in this field. Unfortunately, in the current environment, everyone is not interested in repairing ancient buildings that are as old as they are. Renovation is not paid much attention to, and they all prefer modern buildings with glass curtain walls and marble floors. The craftsmanship of these old masters is not valued, so they have to condescend to retire in a small repair team.
Yao Yuan, who heard that Baba came to visit him, wanted to uniformly decorate his braised pork chain store and make an antique door. The style of the store should imitate the old delicatessen shops. Yao Yuan talked for a long time, but before he could say anything, After finishing, Qi Baohua curled his lips and effortlessly drew a sketch on the spot.
Red bricks, green glazed tiles, large vermilion pillars, loach-backed window panes, and oversized floor-to-ceiling glass windows are the effect Yao Yuan wants.
Each store should not exceed 40 square meters at most, and 20 square meters is generally the best. The antique door is coupled with the rare bright anti-slip floor tiles at this time, the counters are inlaid with maroon glass, and each group of counters is equipped with a shooting Yao Yuan almost completely copied the decoration of a certain braised pork chain store in his mind, and used the key elements in it as the CI elements of his own chain store in the future.
A bit shameless.
But Qi Baohua likes it very much.
The brothers in the repair team are idle every day, otherwise they would not practice wrestling in the park every day. This job suddenly introduced by the younger brother Yao Yuan has given the brothers a way to earn extra money. Chance.
Unknowingly, there are many more construction sites in the city, and more and more farmers from other places are working on the construction sites. These people should be Qi Baohua's colleagues, but there is one thing that makes the repair team who eats from the public family feel more and more uncomfortable. .
The laborers who move bricks on other construction sites are paid ten yuan a day.
It would be even worse if they are joiners from southern Anhui or northern Jiangsu. I heard that their monthly income has reached more than 1,000 yuan.
As for the heads of the renovation team, the wages they receive now are the same as those of the workers who move bricks on other construction sites.
Qi Baohua's master, Gu Shunchang, is over 50 years old this year. He once participated in guiding the repair work of Tiananmen Square and is definitely a top expert in the industry. However, his monthly salary plus allowance is not even half of that of a southern joinery worker.
Now that I have taken over this decoration job from Yao Yuan, I can finally make some money for everyone.
"RMB 3,500 for labor and materials." Qi Baohua felt a little uneasy when he quoted the price.
Dang Jianguo didn't react at all when he heard it. He stretched out his hand to signal Dang Jianguo to drink tea: "Brother Dang, I don't understand your price. Just tell me whether this price is high or low compared with others."
Qi Baohua didn't expect that the other party would ask such a question, with a bit of embarrassment on his face: "Master Dang, to be honest, it's not very good. Yao Yuan said at the time that he only wanted good results, and a sense of modernity should be brought out in the antique style. Let's sum it up All the wood used for the roof must be made of good wood. The glazed tiles on the eaves cannot be messed with. Even the pillars need a layer of linen, a layer of anti-moth, a layer of primer, and then varnish on the outside. After this set of techniques, the cost will be certain. It will be more expensive than construction teams from outside, but the things are different.”
After pondering for a moment, perhaps thinking that Yao Yuan had told him that all details needed to be settled with Dang Jianguo, he then added: "But don't worry, there are plenty of good materials in our stockyard, and this job belongs to our own buddies." We will think of ways to save you money on materials, and the total price must not be more expensive than elsewhere!"
Qi Baohua's idea is very obvious, that is, the materials are public and do not need to be used in vain, as long as they can earn the wages of his brothers. The guys in the renovation team were living in a state of hunger. Brother Peng had a pair of twin brothers aged 17 or 18 at home. The two and a half boys were very good eaters. In order to ensure that the children could eat meat every week, Brother Peng even smoked cigarettes. Stop doing.
Finally, I have a job now. I heard from Yao Yuan that this chain of braised meat shops will open 20 stores within half a year. If this job can be firmly grasped, the brothers in the repair team will have to pay a lot of money every day. Chongjiu!
Of course Dang Jianguo knew what Qi Baohua was thinking, and he smiled: "That's not what I meant, brother Qi, Yao Yuan has discussed with me, this store won't set a budget for you yet, we will give you five thousand yuan first, you Well, prepare the materials and start work first. We don’t know much about decoration, we just want a good final effect, so during the construction, we may discuss and adjust the details with you at any time. During the final acceptance, we will make the final settlement. , I will add more to you if there is not enough space. In short, let’s build this store in Qianjiakou as a model first. After the shape is finalized, all subsequent stores will follow this pattern. Do you think this is okay?”
Qi Baohua was a little confused, what is this? If you want three thousand for five thousand, you still don’t have a budget? Why are you confused?
After a second thought, I realized that this is what Yao Yuan said, "Let's make a mockup first." It turns out that this is what it means.
As everyone knows, whether it is Yao Yuan who comes up with the idea or Dang Jianguo who is in charge, both of them are laymen who know nothing about decoration. Yao Yuan's idea is to keep the money from outsiders and find his own buddies to do things without causing trouble. Working and studying at the same time, Qi Baohua's repair team's job is not just about decoration, but starting from the design.
As long as the decoration style of the first store is right, the next thing is to simply copy it, which is extremely easy.
But for a group of professional ancient architects to do this job, they should be familiar with it, and even feel a bit like using anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes and overusing their talents.
Yao Yuan thought so, and Brother Dang strongly agreed.
